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A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space (www.slate.com)

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Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander? (seclists.org)

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Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine (rsms.me)

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FiveThirtyEight: Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted (www.nytimes.com)

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Why becoming a data scientist is Not easier than you think (www.josephmisiti.com)

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Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with a single DMCA notice (www.techdirt.com)

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R.I.P. Phil Bagwell (blog.typesafe.com)

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Meet a science committee that dosen’t get science (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Master Keys (www.schneier.com)

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Google Earth Fractals (paulbourke.net)

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Filepicker.io JS V1 - Full filesystem API in Javascript (www.filepicker.io)

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Rust 0.4 released (mail.mozilla.org)

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Show HN: create, share, explore database patterns (http://dbpatterns.com)

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Headius: So You Want To Optimize Ruby (blog.headius.com)

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Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns (io9.com)

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Git is cheap (coderwall.com)

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Felix Baumgartner: The best photos and videos from the edge of space (www.extremetech.com)

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Show HN: What would Paul Graham do? (http://wwpgd.com)

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Save Even More Time On Hacker News (danmaz74.me)

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Honour for overlooked Poles who were first to crack Enigma code (www.smh.com.au)

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Marie Curie Day (blog.jgc.org)

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The Great Dropbox Space Race (www.dropbox.com)

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Alexis Ohanian interviewed after talk at Waterloo (www.communitech.ca)

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The Side-Project Project (sachagreif.com)

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Facebook’s Wonky Privacy Controls Now Outing LGBT Youth Without Their Consent (betabeat.com)

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Building Servers for Fun and Prof... OK, Maybe Just for Fun (www.codinghorror.com)

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Show HN: The Five Year Itch (http://fiveyearitch.com)

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Flightfox + AirBnb + Vayable (flightfox.com)

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Amazon to Buy TI Mobile Chip Busines (news.cnet.com)

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Pull Request: Launch GOV.UK (github.com)

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Microsoft Bans Halo 4 Pirates, and Some Idiots Absolutely Deserved It (torrentfreak.com)

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Catalyst: a new front-end developer training program (catalystclass.com)

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Streak (YC S11) raises $1.9M and launches API (techcrunch.com)

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Referly (YC S12) Raises $1M To Bring Affiliate Commerce To Everyone (techcrunch.com)

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Snappy Dashboards with Redis (blog.togo.io)

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ShowHN: Responsivator - View/Share Responsive Sites (dfcb.github.com)

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Big-O Misconceptions (ssp.impulsetrain.com)

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Apple Turns on iPhone Tracking in iOS6 (www.schneier.com)

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Gary McKinnon extradition ruling due today (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Wherein I Write Apple’s Technote About OpenSSL on OS X (rentzsch.tumblr.com)

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File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers (torrentfreak.com)

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Becoming a data scientist might be easier than you think — Data | GigaOM (gigaom.com)

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Visualising the Ruby Global VM Lock (johnleach.co.uk)

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Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Roth and Shapley for matching algorithm work (www.nobelprize.org)

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Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers (www.bloomberg.com)

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You keep using that word "meritocracy" (www.garann.com)

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React/GifSocket: GifSockets in PHP (github.com)

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8 Enhancements to Shell and Vim Productivity (danielmiessler.com)

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Show HN: Share, rediscover and keep track of all the gems you find on HN (socialhn.r12.railsrumble.com)

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Yahoo appoints Google's Henrique de Castro as COO (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Shedding some light on "dark social" (5f5.org)

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Starting vs. Building a Company (daslee.me)

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Why The Future Of Software And Apps Is Serverless (www.readwriteweb.com)

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CashFlow forecasting for small businesses and freelancers (www.wisecashhq.com)

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New Google play developer console (android-developers.blogspot.ca)

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How to Start Your Own GeoCoder in Less Than 48 Hours (klaustopher.github.com)

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Show HN: Chrome extension for unsubscribe newsletters on gmail (miquelcamps.tumblr.com)

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Congressman warns FTC To Leave Google alone (arstechnica.com)

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Hacking Mountain Lion: Bringing the old Web Inspector back (thomasst.ch)

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Super-Cheap Health Tests (www.technologyreview.com)

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Mozilla adds sweetener to JavaScript (www.h-online.com)

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Accumulo - A Secure BigTable Courtesy of NSA (www.informationweek.com)

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Apple Hires Amazon Search Exec to Run Siri (allthingsd.com)

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Simpler, Cheaper, Faster: Playtomic's Move From .NET To Node And Heroku (highscalability.com)

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A/B Testing the Effect of Sender Race on Email Response Rates (blog.ezliu.com)

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Rate-limiting JavaScript function calls (ryhan.org)

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Personal recommendations of GitHub projects (gitfm.com)

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Growing Branch: new feed and compose (growing.branch.com)

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Lessons Learned Getting Other People to Sell My Ebook (jstorimer.com)

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Does Scala as a FP Language Suffer From Its OO Syntax? (java.dzone.com)

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A critical look at trolling subculture and how we talk about it (www.theatlantic.com)

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Craziest conference idea ever - announcing DjangoCon Europe 2013 (blog.djangocircus.com)

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A review of Internet Explorer on Xbox 360 (www.broken-links.com)

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Announcing the next Hacker News Kansai meetup: October 26th, Osaka (hnkansai.org)

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Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes (jfornear.co)

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Glassmap (YC S11) Business Solutions builds apps for brands and businesses (techcrunch.com)

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Why Dropbox's Space Race is Genius (sorryhumans.com)

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10 Tools, Tips, and Tricks to Hack Your Workflow (www.iamdann.com)

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Why developers aren't interested in your startup (numeratechoir.com)

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Programming and Report Designer - Maximum Age: 40 (www.irantalent.com)

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A New Home for Hacker Dojo (www.hackerdojo.com)

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RSS.app, rejected from the Mac AppStore. So I'm giving it out for free. (www.rssapplication.com)

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Tweet to tip: Share your Tweaky experience and tip your developer $5 (blog.tweaky.com)

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Chrome Extension to Like every post on Facebook (github.com)

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Ask HN: Where do you (freelancers) find your clients/work? (news.ycombinator.com)

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How wireless charging works (www.extremetech.com)

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Google's I'm feeling lucky button is feeling Hungry (mouse over) (www.google.com)

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Salesforce hiring for big PostgreSQL push (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Show HN: I've built a REST Test client in my spare time (www.wcfstorm.com)

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Learning the k-means Clustering Algorithm in Javascript (burakkanber.com)

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How Cats Infect Human Brain (www.theatlantic.com)

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Company hiring growth hacker via github (github.com)

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Introducing Supersonic Query Engine (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

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Show HN: My standalone PHP Debugger (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google privacy policy rethink demanded by EU (www.bbc.com)

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10,000 UK protestors demand Google censor anti-Islam video (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: I'm a being paid fairly? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Show HN: When can you retire? My early retirement calculator (networthify.com)

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Free will, faciticity and their (not-so) surprising consequences (paraschopra.com)

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Sprint Nextel Bought for About $20 Billion by Japan's Softbank (online.wsj.com)

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Perfect Audience (YC S11) brings DIY to Facebook Retargeting (www.mediapost.com)

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Amid Layoff Rumors, PayPal’s Mok Oh Out as Chief Scientist (www.xconomy.com)

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Why you might want to Not ask someone to sign an NDA (www.oncontracts.com)

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Ask HN: What's the best option for easy payment processing? (news.ycombinator.com)

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UJ - a Java VM for microcontrollers (dmitry.co)

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Show HN: progLipsum, Dead Simple Test Data Generation For Developers (http://proglipsum.com)

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How Locu's crowdsourced task decomposition process works (blog.locu.com)

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3 Things I Hate About Elections (www.professorhollybell.com)

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ReadyForZero (YC S2010) integrates bill payment (pandodaily.com)

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At Stanford, scholars debate the promises, pitfalls of online learning (news.stanford.edu)

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Open-source SmartWatch alternative for Hackers (mclightning.com)

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Takedown notice for quote in 1974 textbook shuts down millions of edublogs (boingboing.net)

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Recommended machine learning software (zinkov.com)

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Electronic Arts free game code goes viral on Reddit (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The CryptoParty Handbook: Layman's guide to maintaining privacy on-line (cryptoparty.org)

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CodeTable - online compiler/interpreter. (A weekend hack) (http://www.codetable.org)

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Using Filepicker.io to help our teachers deliver a richer teaching experience (getlexim.com)

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Inequality is one of our biggest social, economic and political challenges (www.economist.com)

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File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers (www.torrentfreak.com)

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Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Databases (www.tokutek.com)

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File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers (torrentfreak.com)

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Dropbox ToS Update: "admins may have access to team member accounts" (news.ycombinator.com)

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A standing desk killed my productivity (simonbarker.tumblr.com)

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Analytics firm flushes out trolls spawned by Intellectual Ventures (gigaom.com)

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Hobbits are Like Facebook (hobbits.arelikefacebook.com)

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Avoiding divs to make multiple columns using CSS3 property (www.dzyngiri.com)

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Our own little computer language (rsms.me)

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Rust 0.4 is out (mail.mozilla.org)

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Analytics firm flushes out trolls spawned by Intellectual Ventures (www.gigaom.com)

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Blue Bottle Coffee Raises $20M (techcrunch.com)

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Court of Appeals Rules Seattle's Phonebook Opt-out Unconstitutional (slog.thestranger.com)

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Kaspersky developing its own industrial control operating system (www.securelist.com)

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Beer me: 5 lessons for trade associations (associationsnow.com)

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Tips for Building Great Startups with a Small Team (designm.ag)

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Cracking the Quantum Safe (www.nytimes.com)

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XKCD : Identity (xkcd.com)

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Why I pay extra for “business-class” broadband at home (arstechnica.com)

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Why College May Be Totally Free Within 10 Years (moneyland.time.com)

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A complete Nintendo Entertainment System cloned in an FPGA (danstrother.com)

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Market Design Economists win Nobel Prize (marginalrevolution.com)

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Foursquare launches local search engine for everyone (gigaom.com)